Juicebox
AI-powered recruiting platform that helps teams find and engage top talent using LLM-driven search.
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Latest Round
- Series A
- Est. Valuation
- ~$250M
Investment Thesis
Juicebox is an AI recruiting platform that uses large language models to help recruiters source, evaluate, and engage candidates with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The platform serves over 2,500 customers ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise talent acquisition teams at companies like Ramp, Quora, and Perplexity.
Founded in 2022 by Ishan Gupta and David Paffenholz through Y Combinator (S22), Juicebox bootstrapped to its first $1M in ARR with just four employees before raising significant capital. The company hit $10M ARR and raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital in September 2025, bringing total funding to $36M.
Recruiters spend 10-15 hours per role manually searching LinkedIn, writing outreach, and screening candidates, yet 70%+ of hires still come through the same saturated talent pools.
Juicebox's AI recruiting engine searches across the entire indexed internet — not just LinkedIn — to surface hidden talent, auto-generate personalized outreach, and rank candidates by true fit rather than keyword matching.
Used by recruiting teams at fast-growing startups and enterprises who report dramatically expanded candidate pools and 3-4x faster time-to-pipeline compared to traditional sourcing tools.
The war for technical talent is intensifying as AI companies poach aggressively, and AI-native search can finally understand role context well enough to identify non-obvious candidates that Boolean searches miss.
Funding & Investors
Headcount Growth
Latest News
Why We're Partnering with Juicebox: The Recruiting Platform Founders Are Obsessed With
Sequoia Capital
Juicebox raises $30M from Sequoia to revolutionize hiring with LLM-powered search
TechCrunch
Juicebox Secures $36M to Scale AI Recruiting Agents for Enterprise and Startups
Juicebox Blog